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An 18-year-old Virginia high school student just dropped a prototype that has the internet buzzing: a home-built water filter that pulls out nearly all the microplastics without the usual disposable membranes. The viral claim lands on “96%.” That number is a clean round-up of the 95.52% removal rate Mia Heller measured in her own tests. It’s not a certified guarantee for every drop of real-world tap water, but it is the figure from her prototype work. https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2095086954081558550?s=20 Heller, a student at Kettle Run High School who also attends Mountain Vista Governor’s School in Warrenton, Virginia (not the often-misspelled “Warrington”), got the idea...

The bullet trains in Japan have been transporting over 10 billion people at fast speeds since 1964. There hasn’t been a single person killed in a train accident like derailments.This is basically the essence of a viral statement that can be found in various places on the Internet, even in a Pubity post where the picture of a train passing Mount Fuji is linked with the impressive fatality statistic.Authoritative sources line up on the key facts. Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has long reported zero passenger fatalities on the Shinkansen since operations began on October 1,...

People can now “feed” a SNICKERS to ChatGPT. The catch the candy bar is digital, and the whole thing is a branded prompt you paste into an AI chat.SNICKERS, owned by Mars, launched Hungr.AI on August 31, 2026. The campaign extends the long-running“You’re Not You When You’re Hungry”slogan into the chatbot age. When an AI turns overly agreeable, spits out strange replies, or produces what tech folks call hallucinations false or fabricated information the brand jokes that the machine is just hungry.“SNICKERS has long been the remedy for out-of-character moments,”Said Ashley Gill, Brand & Content Vice President at Mars...

Andrew Sipowicz walked up to his red 2012 Ford Mustang on a residential street near his Buffalo apartment and stopped cold. The front driver’s side was mashed in. Under the windshield sat a handwritten note in a child’s careful printing, complete with a drawing of a school bus and kids peering out the windows.It was November 2018. Sipowicz, then a 21-year-old Canisius College senior and baseball player, had parked along Blaine Avenue. A roommate mentioned a school bus had been uncomfortably close earlier. When Sipowicz checked after 5 p.m., the damage and the note told the rest of the...